DAILY CURRENT
AFFAIRS: 29TH NOV 2016
(Daily News India)
1.
INDIAN TEAM WINS SILVER IN WORLD ROBOT OLYMPIAD
i. Team “High Voltage” from India (Gurugram)
won a silver in the 13th World Robot Olympiad.
ii. Over 2,000 students from over 50
countries showcased innovative solutions using robotics technology to reduce,
manage and recycle waste.
2.
INDIA BEAT MALAYSIA TO FINISH THIRD IN FOUR NATIONS HOCKEY TOURNAMENT
i. Indian Hockey team defeated Malaysia in the third-place playoff match to secure
bronze in the 4 Nations Tournament in Melbourne.
ii.
Akashdeep, captain VR Raghunath, Talwinder Singh and Rupinder Pal Singh
scored goals for the country.
3.
ICICI BANK’S ADOPTED AKODARA VILLAGE BECOMES INDIA’S FIRST DIGITAL VILLAGE
i. A tiny village Akodara in Sabarkantha
district of Gujarat has become the first Digital Village in India.
ii. The village is adopted by the ICICI Bank
under Digital Village project in 2015 that developed it as a digitized village
with a rural branch of the bank.India’s First Digital Village
iii. The campaign was committed to connect
rural India with high speed internet networks, create a digital infrastructure,
and improve digital literacy in the country.
4.
ANDHRA PRADESH CM CHANDRABABU NAIDU TO HEAD CMS COMMITTEE ON DEMONETISATION
i. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N.
Chandrababu Naidu has been nominated by the Central Government to head the
sub-committee of Chief Ministers of five States constituted to deal with the
situation arising out of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 denomination notes.
ii. Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
requested Chandrabab Naidu to head the committee which would study various
aspects after demonetization and how it has affected different sections of the
people.
iii. Chief Ministers Sivaraj Singh Chauhan,
Nitish Kumar, Narayana Swamy and Manik Sirkar will be the other members
iv. The main aims is to stop the Opposition’s
attack on the Centre’s demonetization decision.
v. The Opposition organised ‘Jan Aakrosh
Diwas’ on November 28 to protest against the move.
5.
ASIA’S FIRST CYCLE HIGHWAY INAUGURATED IN UP
i. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh
Yadav has inaugurated India’s first and Asia’s longest bicycle highway between
Agra and Etawah in UP.
ii. A rally of 90 cyclists from five
countries and across India followed the inauguration ceremony at the Lion
Safari in Etawah.
6.
TELANGANA VILLAGE RENAMED ‘KAVITHAPURAM’
i. Villagers of Khanapur in Telangana’s
Nizamabad district have renamed their village as ‘Kavithapuram’ after the
daughter of CM K Chandrasekhar Rao.
ii. The residents of Khanapur gram panchayat
passed the resolution as a “token of reverence” towards TRS MP Kalvakuntla
Kavitha.
iii. She helped the villagers when they were
displaced by the Sri Ram Sagar reservoir on Godavari River.
